Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 13 people have been found dead after a powerful quake shook part of southwestern Japan and rescue work was continuing Wednesday morning for the missing.

U.S. and Saudi Arabian forces struck multiple sites in eastern Iraq on Tuesday after Iran-backed militias used those locations to launch drone attacks across the region, Pentagon officials said.

Senators capped off a day of tributes to their late colleague Lindsey Graham by advancing a sanctions bill he spent his final week of life negotiating.

The Pentagon said a new, separate category was created in its official casualty system to account for those killed and wounded in the renewed U.S.-Iran fighting because "Operation Epic Fury," the military's name for combat operations against Tehran, has ended.

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that it shot down drones fired by Iran-backed militias in Iraq for a second day, while Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have forced a Saudi oil tanker to turn around as part of their self-styled blockade of the kingdom.

A Chinese military scientist covertly sent vials of a coronavirus to a Minnesota laboratory in 2018 -- highlighting People's Liberation Army work on viruses similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic a year later, according to declassified documents released by a Senate committee.

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a "positive and productive" White House meeting as their war on Iran, a periodic source of tension between the men, reaches a pivotal stage and they confront tough election seasons.

Iran said any country or business that accepts money from its frozen assets in the U.S. and Europe won't be allowed to send its ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey could get up to 1 million barrels of oil day under an energy cooperation plan discussed on Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi in Ankara.

Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru's president Tuesday after winning the June presidential election by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes.

Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country's last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo.

It is easy to condemn North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un for his dictatorial rule, but in terms of strategic pragmatism, his ever-evolving nuclear deterrent looks increasingly prudent.

Chad announced plans Monday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, accusing the judicial body of ineffectiveness and bias against African countries.

Kyiv is dismissing threats of retaliation from Iran after Ukraine launched a drone strike over the weekend at an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Caspian Sea.

The Pentagon moved to classify four Iran war deaths as "Overseas Operations," days after it was revealed that the official death toll was lowered from 18 to 14, excluding service members who died after the broken ceasefire deal.

Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, said he would stand up to President Trump "if it is right for Britain" in his first major interview since taking power.

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 more people to evacuate from Atlantic coast tourist sites Tuesday as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux, widening what may be France's largest peacetime evacuation.

Kenya and Britain on Tuesday agreed to resume military training in the East African nation after a delay in signing a new defense cooperation agreement that were largely attributed to Kenyan legislators' concerns about protecting nearby communities.

Drivers in Iraq's semiautonomous northern Kurdish region waited in line for hours, some overnight, to buy gasoline in recent days as a fuel crisis gripped the main city, Irbil.

Scientists have reacted with alarm to news that the British government will cut funding to the world-famous radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest England that has been helping explore the cosmos for almost 70 years.